Ungovernable American Cities

Let’s see. The Los Angeles District Attorney has always had a soft spot for criminality. But now, seeing organized criminal gangs openly steal from the city’s retail establishments, he has decided that it is all unacceptable. The new mayor of Los Angeles has offered the same message. They have declared retail crime and the ongoing insurrection to be unacceptable. 

In truth, it is so unacceptable that no one who participated in the recent rash of smash and grab robberies has been apprehended. The chances of their being apprehended are nil. 

Of course, if it were really unacceptable, it would not be happening. The enablers are looking at their handwork and are not very happy about it.

One understands that when politicians politicize the justice system, at all levels, people do not respect the laws and do not follow the rules. The new absurd mayor of Chicago refuses to call riotous gangs riotous gangs, so the city's gangs are happy to do as they please. They have the mayor on their side. 

Having two sets of rules, one for one group and one for another group, means that members of the other group know that they are being allowed to take what they please. Presumably, they do not have as much as other people because of systemic racism, and thus they should take what they did not earn. They are not criminals; they are fighting for justice. 

Dare we mention that the slew of indictments against former president Trump are the clearest signs that one set of rules applies to one group while another set of rules applies to another. Trump is being indicted for “crimes” committed by Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams, among others.

So he is being indicted for being a male white supremacist, and because prosecutors believe that punishing Trump will erase racism in society. In truth, the unjust prosecution of a former president will set back race relations in this country for a generation. If different groups play by different rules, then clearly you should avoid contact with members of a group that does not follow the same rules.

Surely, Michael Snyder, of the Economic Collapse blog, is right:

In order for a civilized society to function, most people have to willingly follow the rules of that society.  If that happens, law enforcement authorities can deal with the few that choose to be lawless. 

For generations, that is how things worked in America. 

He remarks that certain American cities have become ungovernable:

There was a high standard of morality among the general population, and so the police were able to successfully handle the few bad apples that insisted on breaking the law. 

But now everything has changed.  As a result of decades of extreme moral decay, lawlessness is rampant and there are vast multitudes of young people that openly flaunt the rules of our society.  In fact, there are already some areas of the country that are literally on the verge of being ungovernable.

One might say that large groups flaunt the rules, or else, if one wishes to be technical, one can say that different groups are playing by different rules. And that local officials find their behavior acceptable.

By now everyone has seen the organized robbery of a Nordstroms in Topanga, California. 

Let’s not forget the events that took place at an Yves Saint Laurent boutique in Glendale:

Earlier this week a high-end designer store in Glendale, California was looted by dozens of people in another flash mob burglary on Tuesday.

At least 30 suspects “flooded” the Yves Saint Laurent store in The Americana at Brand Tuesday afternoon and stole clothing and other merchandise before fleeing on foot and leaving the location in numerous vehicles, said police in a statement.

The total loss is estimated to be approximately $300,000.

Some of it, Snyder says, comes from the homeless crisis. And from drug abuse. But then, why is it acceptable to have homeless encampments, filled by drug addicts and illegal migrants?

After all, taking drugs and invading the country are against the law. And yet, the Biden administration and the Democrats who run America’s great blue cities, do not care. They are more concerned with passing new laws that afford the homeless special rights and privileges.

And, as you might have read, workers in the Nancy Pelosi office building in downtown San Francisco have been told that they can work from home-- because it is too dangerous to go to work.

So, you might recall the halcyon days when New York City was ruled by Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. You might recall that the city was once governable. 

As for where they are now, Giuliani has just been indicted in Georgia-- so much for America’s mayor-- and Bloomberg is fighting for gun control, and crusading against climate change.

Be patient. Shortly, someone somewhere will explain that the retail insurrection has been produced by climate change.

In the meantime, more and more of America’s cities become ungovernable and unlivable.

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